Eastgate Bible Fellowship

The Apostle Paul was used by God to help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world and encourage countless others to do the same. The struggles that the early Church experienced are the same struggles that we face today as we continue to be God's representatives in the world.

Main Passage: Acts 13:14-52

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Up until this point in our survey of the Book of Acts the Church has been primarily in one location of the world. Acts 13 is where we see the Church begin to fulfill the great commission in going out to the rest of the world by sending the first missionaries, Paul and Barnabas.

Main Passage: Acts 13:1-15

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God's power cannot be contested and His judgement cannot be avoided. God will not share the glory with anyone and there is nothing that can be done to frustrate His purposes. Who gets the glory in your life?

Main Passage: Acts 12:5-25

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With Herod Agrippa 1 threatening the life of the Apostle Peter we find that Peter was sleeping in jail when an angel came to help him escape. Peter was so confident in what Jesus told him would happen he knew he wasn't going to die at this point in his life? Do you find rest in what God has revealed through His Word? The church was praying for Peter's release and couldn't believe it when he showed up at their door. Do you believe in the power of prayer? God's Word teaches us that "the prayer of a righteous man in powerful and effective." Do you believe it?

Main Passages: Acts 12:1-19, James 5:16

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The majority of us don't ever want to think or talk about the reality of death and all of it's implications. Truth be told we live in denial of the fact that at some point we will die. The beauty of the Gospel is that our biggest enemy, death, died the day that Jesus Christ rose up from the grave! We have a guarantee in Jesus Christ that if we trust what he did on the cross was for you and me then we have nothing to fear in death.

Main Passages: 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, 54-58; 2 Corinthians 5:6-8

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Why did it take 10 years for the gospel to reach the Gentiles and begin to spread throughout the world? God was laying the foundation of apostalic authority as well as preparing the disciples to do what He was calling them to do. What does God need to change within us so that we can be vessels used to bring his message into the world?

Main Passage: Acts 11:1-30

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Speaker: Robin Porter, Director of Student and Worship Ministries

The Apostle Peter was a very key person in the early church. A lot of people took their cues from him. For the first 10 years of the church's existence it was a purely Jewish thing, but God wanted way more than to reach just one people group. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for the world. God would not allow the church stay in one place and so he moved in the lives of Peter and Cornelius sparking a change that would spread throughout the world. The mission continues today. God has commissioned his people to take the gospel everywhere and to all people.

Main Passage: Acts 10:1-23

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When Saul of Tarsus met Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus his life was completely transformed. He had to deal with many new things in his life: new relationships, new teachers, new enemies. The reality is that Saul (Paul) knew that all of these new things had a purpose that was beyond anything he had pursued before.

Main Passage: Acts 9:19-31

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God is amazing. He proves again and again that there is no one beyond his saving grace. Saul of Tarsus is the focus of this message as we continue our journey through the book of Acts. Saul was a very committed religious man that was doing everything in his power to kill the Christian church until Christ intervened and forever changed this man who would be God's chosen instrument to advance this new force in the world.

Main Passage: Acts 9:1-9; 26:4-18

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Pastor Brad continues to lead us through the book of Acts. This message centers on the "faith" of two men that provide quite a contrast. One man sought to simply add God to his life without conviction or repentance. The other reveals that a heart that is truly repentant and available to God is filled and used in ways he could have never imagined. What kind of faith have you experienced?

Main Passage: Acts 8:9-40

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